Meet Yours Truly, a Single Friend Who Definitely Gets Great Expectations
Firstly, Nobody can say I’m terribly comfortable being bored with most men (who isn’t?) and not be lying. But, I’m not uncomfortable with the reality of life, either. I only mention it on the blogosphere as a delicious personal tidbit foreshadowing what I am prepared to explain in grand style.
A week ago today yours truly was talking to Stacey, considering buying a membership to a dating service for Phoenix singles. Today, I stand to the blogosphere as a surprisingly pleased member of the dating service. Totally, it’s true. It’s full of fun, attractive people! If you know me at all, you’re probably thinking, “You totally owe me an explanation.”
So, I saw this Great Expectations Dating site and felt encouraged. They’re for the honest singles who care enough to know dating should mean something.
Quite frankly, I’d never enjoyed or even tolerated this silly social phenomenon most people call “The Dating Experience.” I heard it all the time. Every night people pester, “Are you seeing somebody?” and “Oh I know just the guy for you!”
“Baloney!” I say to them, and playfully so. “There’s nothing to date!”
“You’re as ridiculous as you are hilarious,” they reply. “How would you know, you haven’t seen Friday Night Magic in a year!”
That’s just my friend (on a good day) 
Sandy Wilson. She pours the best ideas to my brain 99% of the time. Friends I depend on . Can’t argue with that, and I thank her for it.
Coming home to the point of this post. As I selected from more than three hundred outfits (hah) and desirable, honest singles for my first Great Expectations date, something occurred to me that was quite honest. Over the last year, I hadn’t had any literal great expectations for dating and myself in the adventurous journey of being human. It’s good to be single, especially with healthy optimism. Having great expectations works terrifically for those who believe.
–Christy Rodriguez
